There are four bands named Featherweight: 1) Featherweight is a punk/post hardcore/screamo band from Fort Lauderdale FL, in the vein of Knapsack, Small Brown Bike, and Jawbreaker. 2) Boston, MA (2009 - 2011). Featherweight was a D.I.Y. emotive hardcore band formed in July 2009 and broke up in October 2011. Members went on to play with bands such as Cerce, Hospice, Callow, among others. Anti-war, anti-violence, anti-sexist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, straight edge, ALWAYS D.I.Y. emotive hardcore. "We try to capture the opposing forces we're all pulled towards everyday, and we channel our passions through our music, lyrics, and art. Every song is about the struggle to find moderation in a world of extremes, the gray between the black and white. We're on a search for the ever elusive balance between chaos and order, love and lust, personal responsibility and societal duty, remembering and forgetting, past and future, fate and free will. We'll probably never capture all of this in our music, but this is our fight and we won't quit without trying." 3) Featherweight is a Swedish shoegaze band. 4) Melodic Hardcore from Adelaide Australia Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.